WhatGravitas

Huh, not a fan, to be honest. I like the concept... but I dearly hope this is a WIP. The current KSC has amazing models and Porkjet's additions also impressed with great models and very well-made textures. This WIP(?) Models are all wonky and the textures are atrocious.

This is exactly what I hoped for back then when the renders hit the web, very excited for the release!

Another "Congratulations" here from somebody who lurks but enjoyed your mods a lot so far!

Hello World! Mostly here, because I've lurked long enough... and having the ARM update seems like a good opportunity to stop lurking!

You could also say it's the other way round. By having strictly better parts, you don't have any genuine rewards, it's the same as before, just better. With more choice of options, however, the game becomes more rewarding because it gives you more ways to solve the "puzzle". If the bigger engines are always better, there's no puzzle to solve. It's boring, there are no trade-offs to manage, no efficiency considerations to make, no room for stylistic/personal preference. It becomes "pick the biggest thing, it will work". Basically, the people who want "balanced" engines want to unlock flexibility. They want to get more tools to flex their engineering muscles and create the perfect rocket by having (effectively) bespoke parts. They get a kick out of the engineering part of the game. The people who want plain better engines want to play it more like, let's say an RPG, where your reward is the loot and having plain better things. They get a kick out of the "mission accomplished!" part of the game. I think the solution to that is: have both, in the end. Have parts obsoleting other parts and have parts that reward you by opening up more avenues (3.75m parts, the choice of ISP vs. TWR vs. time trade offs, manned vs. unmanned etc.). But to do that, KSP needs a better UI - one that allows you to filter parts in sensible manner and replaces "obsolete" parts (much like in Civ where an upgraded unit completely replaces the previous one).